Collaboration 2.0

Real world collaboration strategies and tactics for enterprises.

Oliver Marks

Oliver Marks consults and advises with on international digital business strategy, previously ran HP's Global Digital Enterprise Transformation team, managed the Sony PlayStation 'WorldWide Studios' collaboration and workflow environment, and has worked with the American Management Association, Sun, Docent/SumTotal Systems, Harvard Business School and McKinsey & Company.
Oliver has dual US/UK citizenship, speaks at various conferences and on the occasional webinar. He is based in San Francisco. His personal site is www.olivermarks.com.

My annual recorded chat with leading HR analyst Kutik, where we cover the upcoming HR Tech conference, the mood and concerns of the HR executive, the rapid shift of focus to SaaS and associated strategic & tactical shifts

Bitter licensing and support memories may be a bigger impediment to adoption of the enterprise old guard's next generation product offerings than they realize, especially given third party options for legacy support, which can provide savings that can be applied to future customer innovation initiatives

Enterprise customers continue to be frustrated by a lack of clarity or momentum in key areas around business productivity 'front office' strategy from Microsoft; partners are picking up the slack but some big questions are being asked this summer

The old guard are marrying off upstart competitors into their product portfolios. But is the battle for supremacy among Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle still relevant -- and has it scarred long-term relationships with customers?

A clash of cultures between traditional marketing conventions and enterprise software getting more involved in digital branding infrastructure is going to result in friction and sparks. The prize is modeling and transforming the future top global brands...

Facebook IPO hype and dramas obscured Google's launch of their Knowledge graph contextual extensions to search, which may prove to be the foundation for future digital networking and a solution to information context and filtering

Historically SAP are an enterprise structured data software company: as society evolves unstructured data is ever more important. How are SAP coping with the opportunities and red herrings our increasingly connected world surfaces for them to respond to?